A local Montco supervisor has been charged with sexually abusing a boy for years
The abuse allegations come weeks after Nicholas Fountain had been charged with soliciting child pornography in Maryland.
A Skippack Township supervisor, already facing charges of soliciting child pornography, has been charged with sexually abusing a boy who was in his care for several years, investigators said Monday.
Nicholas Fountain, 38, was arraigned late Sunday on charges of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault, and related crimes, after investigators say he admitted to the crimes in an interview with Pennsylvania State Police detectives.
He remained in custody, denied bail. It was unclear if he had hired an attorney.
Fountain had been in custody since Sept. 24, when state police troopers arrested him on a warrant issued by the Hartford County Sheriff’s Office in northeast Maryland. He was charged with soliciting nude pictures from an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old boy.
Since Fountain runs two daycare centers in Skippack and Gilbertsville, state police detectives interviewed people close to him about any potential criminal activity, according to the affidavit of probable cause for his arrest in Montgomery County.
In one of those interviews, the victim, now 18, told police Fountain sexually abused him, beginning when he was 9 years old and continuing until he was 16, the affidavit said.
The abuse began in 2016, he said, and started when he and Fountain were wrestling and Fountain asked him to take off his shirt and, eventually, all of his clothing.
He said during subsequent assaults, Fountain groped him, showed him pornography and performed oral sex on him. Fountain later attempted to initiate other sexual contact, he said, but he refused.
In a statement issued after Fountain’s arrest in September, the members of the Skippack Board of Supervisors said they were shocked to learn of the charges, and urged him to resign if the allegations were true.
Fountain, the board’s vice chair, has served as a supervisor since 2013.
He is scheduled to appear before Magisterial District Judge Adam Katzman for a preliminary hearing on Oct. 15.